Wood River times. [volume] (Hailey, Idaho) 1882-1915, 1887-05-17

| which Mrs. Cleveland wore her wedding
dress, and every attention and disunctioh
| of state honors were bestowed upon ner.
! The president is not king, and, if he were,
| it would have been entirely proper for him
| to make the call. There are great many at
Washington who are anxious that the Amer
lean government should ape the fashions OF
the courts Of Europe They sigh for mon
archy, are anglo maniacs in accent and ges-
ture, and are the veriest toadies lmaglhaole'
They would be happy if we had monarch,
and they seek to force the government as tar
as possible from the Jeffersonian simplicity
of its early days. 1t used to be that the
president returned calls in person, and have
heard old stagers tell how Grant used to talk
with them upon the street and how FRANK
Pierce went from the room OF senator TO SEN
ator and made ceremonious calls upon them.
One night he came in upon party of states
men, who were sitting in their shirt sleeves
playing poker. They rose in Difference to
his rank, and were about to resume their
coats. He would not permit this, however,
and sat down and chatted with them for a
few moments while the game was moment
arily suspended President Washington,
says Maclay in his diary of the first congress,
called upon the members of the senate and
the leading members of the house, and Dolly
Madison, who was rather a stickler for ETH
quette, returned all calls made upon her
while she was mistress of the White House.
Jefferson aboninated ceremonial forms, and
he Mortified one of the foreign ministers by
receiving him in dressing gown and slippers
when he came to make his first call upon him.
The minister was so indignant that he con-
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of correspondence with his government. An
drew Jackson during similar reception,
had to call in his French cook to act as his
interpreter, and / imagine the shades Of sold
Hickory" would rise in anger if he could be
informed of the silly twaddle about kings
and queens which Is now daily heard at
Washington. **x
Fencing is becoming quite popular at Wash
mgton, and this is especially so in the diplo-
matte circles. Count Greger, of the Russian
legation, has been having fencing master
from Annapolis come TO Washington every
Sunday and teach a number of the young
diplomats the noble art. He has a tent in
his yard on Rhode Island avenue, and it is
here that these young bloods cross their
swords. This count is also the author of the
paper chase at Washington He has set
w Washington society i'll a mad race after bits
OF paper, and women and men go galloping
about the country following the trail made
by the hounds, as the men who ride off ahead
and scatter the paper are called. At first
Greger had trouble in getting others to &C
company him on these wild goose chases, but
at tue last hunt there were fully thirty people
IN 'unted, to say nothing of those who went
in carriages and coaches. The paper chase
originated in England, and it is modelled after
the plays called Hare and Hounds" which
are in vogue among the English school BOYS.
and which are described. think, in Tom
Browns School Days at Rugby" In the
case of the English school boy game no horses
are used and the boys follow the hounds on
foot FRANK G. CARpEwTrp